Table 2. Characteristics of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates analysed in this study, Germany, 2012–2013 (n = 131).
Characteristic | n | |
---|---|---|
Molecular drug resistance prediction | MDR | 111 |
XDR | 16 | |
Non-MDR | 4 | |
Phenotypic drug resistance prediction | MDR | 122 |
XDR | 7 | |
NA | 2 | |
Year of isolation | 2013 | 80 |
2012 | 50 | |
2014 | 1 | |
Federal state of isolation | North Rhine-Westphalia | 32 |
Bavaria | 13 | |
Baden-Württemberg | 15 | |
Saxony | 10 | |
Lower Saxony | 10 | |
Berlin | 10 | |
Hamburg | 8 | |
Hesse | 8 | |
Schleswig-Holstein | 5 | |
Saxony-Anhalt | 5 | |
Other states | 11 | |
NA | 4 | |
Patient age (years) | Median | 34 (2−83) |
Mean | 35.73 | |
Patient sex | Male | 79 |
Female | 50 | |
NA | 2 | |
Patient citizenship | Germany | 30 |
Russia | 25 | |
India | 8 | |
Georgia | 7 | |
Romania | 7 | |
Kazakhstan | 6 | |
Ukraine | 5 | |
Other | 39 | |
NA | 4 | |
Patient country of birth | Russia | 27 |
Germany | 19 | |
Romania | 10 | |
Ukraine | 8 | |
India | 8 | |
Kazakhstan | 8 | |
Georgia | 7 | |
Other | 41 | |
NA | 3 |
MDR: multidrug-resistant; XDR: extensively drug-resistant; NA: not available.
We found demographic information, epidemiological information and drug susceptibility test results in the German tuberculosis surveillance system for 129 of 131 isolates.